From: Bill Reynolds Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 2:27 PM To: Ashton Hayward Subject: FW: West

FL Public Library fight

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From: Sent: Thursday, October 11, 2012 7:48 AM To: Grover C. Robinson Cc: Bill Reynolds Subject: Re: West FL Public Library fight Grover, You miss the point completely! You contract for someone to put a new roof on. They put the roof on. Then you say you don't have the money to pay. In the mean time you buy a condo (Molino Library). There are three solutions. The roofer could sue you, - you renegotiate the contract price OR you get the money. The roofer does not care if your aunt got sick or you had a car wreck or you bought a new condo.

The roofer may not agree to a new contract price - if that is the case you go to plan B - find another roofer or don't put the roof on. You don't blame the roofer because you are having money problems or the folks down the street got a better price. This is exactly what you are doing. It is none of your business how the City pays their employees or how it runs the rest of their operations. Your only interest is the "contract" and if it is administered per your agreement. Period. It is not the City's fault that the County agreed to the Formula or has not taken action to adjust it. A contract is a contract. The courts are full of cases where one party did not live up to a contract. I'm surprised that the City has not taken the County to court on this "breach of contract". This is much bigger than a Library issue. It involves the whole matter of being good for your word or in this case "contract". Take responsibly for your actions or lack of them. As an elected official this needs to be fixed from your end. ----- Original Message ----From: Grover C. Robinson To: Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2012 9:43 PM Subject: Re: West FL Public Library fight

There is an old, arcane formula developed when governments had money and property values were increasing. As Bill says county quite agreeing to that formula in FYE 2008, a Formula based on checked out books. Most services provided now are for information access. People who go in and utilize the system but don't check out a book don't count. That makes no sense. Anyways the smoke and mirrors are Bill's comments. We reduce our giving by $165,000, quantifiable fact, but we are behind $500,000. This means library increased cost. The biggest of these is an unrealistic pension plan that will eventually eat all city services. The county is not interested in subsidizing the city for actions that are inconsistent with good fiscal management. Bud, no matter how you slice it the county pays more than double into a

system it does not control. I believe the county would be agreeable to 70% of the hours in the county. That would mean we could have more than just Molino and Southwest. The bill Reynolds method is the same tired mantra of just throw more money at it. There is no more money. For the last 6 years the county has had to manage better and we have done it. The city is going to have to grapple with these issues and the lack of money will force that. Trust me I sat with a sheriff who is very upset at me because I won't give him more money and he has an incredibly tough job. However the only way I can give him money is to take it from someone like the library. In the end the lack of money will force those that manage the system to make effective changes to the system so that it is sustainable. The library has been spared the cutting that other departments have dealt with for the last 6 years. While that at first glance appears good it has sheltered the system from proper management that would have had to addressed these problems. No money makes you sober quickly to proper management. I am confident the system will get there, but tough decisions will need to be made. There is no FREE lunch. Grover Sent from my iPhone

On Oct 10, 2012, at 5:42 PM, wrote:

Grover, I see you were copied in on Bill Reynolds' letter to Randy Oliver. Pretty much spells out the situation You were not completly truthful with me - not enough monies OK - no control over spending true however this was based on an agreement between the County and the City (when the county contracted for the city to run the system) as to how the "bill for the county" was arrived at. (A formula the county and city agreed to). You mentioned living within a budget - absolutely first in a budget is paying your bills - the rest of the budget follows - the county has not done this for many years - if things were so bad money wise why a new library in Malino? Financial responsibility- Grover you were just blowing smoke. As Bill says below - this is a County Commissioner issue. I hope that you will stop pointing a finger and you and your fellow commissioners come up with some plan to meet your obligations.